Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change
- Will DurantDissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
- Jacob BronowskiDissent is the highest form of patriotism.
- Howard ZinnDissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
- Charles Evans HughesWhy is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
- Don Williams, JrA free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
- Henry Steele CommagerIn a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- J. William Fulbright